Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

work this season.
1t is said that Ramsey win open a saloon
in Louisville.
They say that young Flynn is already
complaining of his arm.
The kid" battery of the LOuisvilles Is
Neal and Lave Cross.
Burns will have absolute control Of the
Baltimore team on the field.
And now it is said Hudson will join the
st. Louis Browns next month.
Games in which a dozen balls will be
used will be very common this season.
Dalrymple's batting has been one of the
features Ofthe exhibition games.
GIasscock has bet a silk hat thai, In,
d~ianapOlis will down Pittsburg in their
irSc game.
The only Mike Kelly will soon be made
a member of the Boston Lodge of Elks.
The Detroits will play six games at
Minneapolis and st. Paul on a $l,4OO
guarantee.
The Kansas City League Park has been
leased to the Y. NJ. c. 4. for a bicycle
track.
Lyons, of the Athletics, shows marked
improvement this year in both fielding and
batting.
Cleveland has had very little prelimi-
nary work and goes into the Association
fight comparatively raw.
Sunday, of the C~hicagOs, has been chal-
lenged to a Toward dash by Manager
Bryan, of the Des MOines club.
Kilroy continues his fine work of last
season for Baltimore. The new rules
don't seem to handicap him.
CaylOr predicts that Cincinnati will drop
four or five of her nineteen players before
the first pay day in June.
Glasscock is pleased with his reception
at indianapolis, and the HOOsiers are more
in love with John every day.
Jake Evans, at one time Il of the best
of right fielders, will probably play with
the Springfield club this season.
Fogarty is covering third for the Phila-
delphias until Mulvey RECEIVERS from his
recent injury incurred in sliding to sec
Ond.
Tall players seem to be the rage this
year. Almost every club has its siX-tOoter,
and some nave four and five of them.
Tom Deasley is covering third in a way
that, if he keeps it up, will make Ester
brooks absence unfelt by the New York
club.
Topeka swelled to twice its usual size
when the news was received there that
their nine had defeated the champion
Browns.
Buffalo won't have q first class chance
to win the international League pennant
unless their pitchers brace up wonderfully.
Inexperiencc is telling its tale with a
good many of the ''yOung blood, " and a
large number of them will have to be
dropped.
Won der Abe has started the release
move early. His new men did not turn
out to be Foutzs or B~ushOngs. Christie
pher, however, held onto his luck pretty
long.
Nicholas, the new Nashville catcher, has
only three fingers ON his left hand. If he
continues to catch in the Southern League
he will probably be able TO retain these.
The new uniforms of the st. Louis club
were on exhibition several days this week
in that city and were gazed upon with
rapt admiration by thousands of idOlatrous
friends.
There are rumOrs of dissatisfaction in
the Des Moines club. The players object
to Bryan as a manager and want him re-
moved.
If the two other League umpires turn out
to be as good as Quest and Wilson, the
present staff will be the best that Organiza-
ton has yet had.
st. LOuis is looking to Dave FOutz for
great work with the stick this season, and
il his batting thus far is a sample, he will
scarcely d~isappOint them.
In every city in which the Buffalo Inter
national League team has played, Grant,
their second baseman, has been the recipi-
ent of unstinted praise.
If Burdock does not 90 wrong again this
season he will he one of the BOstOn's pillars
ofstrength. He is doing splendid work in
che exhibition games.
The COlOred League clubOf Philadelphia
playen their first game on Monday, and 1t
wound up in a fight between the president
and manager of the team. No razOrs were
drawn.
Mike Kelley is keeping a scrap book
with clippings about himself in connection
with the $40, 900 deal. He started it the
day after he signed with Boston, and has
already filled over twenty leaves.
The Cinrinnatis are working hard to
improve their base running. They are
taking every chance and piling up the
stolen bases in great shape. Nichols sets
the crowd wild by making desperate slides
and landing safe and smiling on the bases.